The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.

The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.

The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.

To become indignant at [people's] conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path. And with many people the wisest thing you can do, is to resolve to make use of those whom you cannot alter.

Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.